stargazer
Gymnast
- Oct 24, 2010
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** I'm not asking for medical advice. I've been checked out and am going to physio. I would like to hear from others who've dealt with this, thanks!**
I'm currently dealing with microtears in my achilles, and it's healing much slower than my physio and I expected. It's not from any one incident in particular, it started hurting when I was tumbling and got worse instead of better a couple days after. I want to be really, really careful because I'm terrified of rupturing it, but I'm at a loss as to what else I can be doing. I'm stretching my calf and achilles 3x a day, only doing bars with mats for soft landings, going to physio 2x a week and not doing any other activity except low-impact dance class once a week. It's been 3 weeks so far. Has anyone else dealt with this before? How long did you find it took you/your gymnast to heal? Were you ever able to return to full tumbling?
The other thing that's been bothering me are inflamed popliteus tendons behind my knees, particularly when I "absorb" deep in a landing or push off in an "explosive manner" (if that makes any sense). It's mostly a problem in front handspring front tucks if I'm not perfectly tight coming out of the handspring, and for high landings like off bars. I haven't been tumbling or running for at least 3 weeks now and it still hurts to "push off" like if I skip steps running up the stairs, or "absorb" when running/walking down a hill. Aside from physio I don't know what to do. My knees hyperextend so stretching behind the knee to reduce the muscle tension just makes it worse. Physio helps but the effects don't last unless I stop all activity, and then the pain comes back the minute I run or tumble again.
I'm 21 and only training 4 hours a week at a drop-in class (I'm level 5/6 so it's not like I'm doing crazy skills), and I just feel like my body is falling apart. I'm supposed to run a half-marathon at the end of May and now I'm worried that's not going to happen
I also tend to tumble with my feet turned out so I'm assuming that doesn't help the ankle/knee situation.
Thanks for letting me go on and on, congrats if you've made it this far! I would really appreciate any advice anyone can give me, and if you/your gymmie has dealt with this and you could let me know how it turned out that would be terrific
I'm currently dealing with microtears in my achilles, and it's healing much slower than my physio and I expected. It's not from any one incident in particular, it started hurting when I was tumbling and got worse instead of better a couple days after. I want to be really, really careful because I'm terrified of rupturing it, but I'm at a loss as to what else I can be doing. I'm stretching my calf and achilles 3x a day, only doing bars with mats for soft landings, going to physio 2x a week and not doing any other activity except low-impact dance class once a week. It's been 3 weeks so far. Has anyone else dealt with this before? How long did you find it took you/your gymnast to heal? Were you ever able to return to full tumbling?
The other thing that's been bothering me are inflamed popliteus tendons behind my knees, particularly when I "absorb" deep in a landing or push off in an "explosive manner" (if that makes any sense). It's mostly a problem in front handspring front tucks if I'm not perfectly tight coming out of the handspring, and for high landings like off bars. I haven't been tumbling or running for at least 3 weeks now and it still hurts to "push off" like if I skip steps running up the stairs, or "absorb" when running/walking down a hill. Aside from physio I don't know what to do. My knees hyperextend so stretching behind the knee to reduce the muscle tension just makes it worse. Physio helps but the effects don't last unless I stop all activity, and then the pain comes back the minute I run or tumble again.
I'm 21 and only training 4 hours a week at a drop-in class (I'm level 5/6 so it's not like I'm doing crazy skills), and I just feel like my body is falling apart. I'm supposed to run a half-marathon at the end of May and now I'm worried that's not going to happen

Thanks for letting me go on and on, congrats if you've made it this far! I would really appreciate any advice anyone can give me, and if you/your gymmie has dealt with this and you could let me know how it turned out that would be terrific
